System Setup and Testing Methods
The test setup for the AMD 690 benchmarking starts a big shift for us at PC Perspective: we moved from Windows XP to Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit for our testing environment. While not EVERYTHING is ironed out yet, I felt that more and more users will be adopting the new OS and thus our testing should be as future-proof as possible.
For this review, I was able to include the competing Intel platform rather than the NVIDIA chipset for the AM2 platform. System configurations are specified as to present as close to equal pricing as possible.
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AMD 690 Chipset Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
AMD Athlon X2 5200+ |
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Motherboards |
Asus M2A-VM RS690 Motherboard |
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Memory |
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 |
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Hard Drive |
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Sound Card |
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value |
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Video Card |
NVIDIA 7600 GT |
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Video Drivers |
100.65 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0c |
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Operating System |
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit |
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Intel G965 Test System Setup | |
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CPU |
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 |
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Motherboards |
Asus P5B-VM G965 Motherboard |
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Memory |
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 |
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Hard Drive |
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Sound Card |
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value |
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Video Card |
NVIDIA 7600 GT |
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Video Drivers |
8.1.1.1010 |
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DirectX Version |
DX 9.0c |
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Operating System |
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit |
Benchmarks:
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SiSoft Sandra XI
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Windows Media Encoder 9
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DivX 6.5.1
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LAME MT
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WinRAR 3.72
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3DMark06
- Call of Duty 2 1.01
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PCMark05
